Vehicle Theft (354A/23)
Request
1) How many incidents of vehicle theft have been reported to your force in the past two calendar years: 2022 and 2021.
2) Please can you also provide a breakdown of how many of these reports led to a police officer visiting the scene of the incident.
Response
Please note that these data should be interpreted with caution.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.